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DaVinci Resolve 21.1

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/release/20260908-03
90•tosh•1h ago•28 comments

LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai/
164•rpgbr•47m ago•45 comments

Show HN: Copperhead – Hardware as Fast as Software

https://copperhead.sh/
71•animeshchouhan•1h ago•22 comments

Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare

https://ciphercue.com/blog/european-cdn-concentration-cloudflare-nine-in-ten
311•adulion•6h ago•259 comments

Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts

https://vale.rocks/posts/html-relics
146•patadune•5h ago•47 comments

Extracting Steering Vectors from J space

https://darshanmakwana412.github.io/2026/09/extracting-steering-vectors-from-j-space/
20•martianvoid•2d ago•5 comments

I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s

https://mcpherrin.ca/2026/09/07/rsa.html
426•ahlCVA•13h ago•91 comments

We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/why-we-must-return-to-the-office-to-use-ai-in-person
62•cainxinth•1h ago•3 comments

There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis

https://weirdgloop.org/blog/google-jail
362•pizzaiolo•12h ago•134 comments

PyPI Blog: Incident File Hosting Errors

https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2026-09-08-file-hosting-errors/
3•miketheman•17m ago•0 comments

An overview of how our family is prepared

https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/08/29/an-overview-of-how-our-family-is-prepared/
20•surprisetalk•32m ago•11 comments

Picolibrary: A Small Press

https://novalis.org/blog/2026-08-31-picolibrary-a-very-small-press.html
29•luu•3d ago•3 comments

Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?

150•Animats•4d ago•66 comments

We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

https://lanparty.house/
298•fittingopposite•2d ago•204 comments

End-to-end infrastructure for training and inferencing open weight models

https://docs.appliedcompute.com
47•Bluestein•3d ago•8 comments

TALA Is Open-Source

https://d2lang.com/blog/tala-is-open-source/
276•alixanderwang•15h ago•23 comments

Arrested for a Late Manuscript: Seicho Matsumoto's 'Tokyo Express'

https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/arrested-for-a-late-manuscript-seicho-matsumoto-tokyo-express
24•benbreen•4d ago•8 comments

Show HN: DriveSync – fast Git-styled Google Drive sync CLI

https://github.com/scaleninja/drivesync
6•rohityadavcloud•1h ago•0 comments

How well do agents use test/verification techniques?

https://danluu.com/agentic-testing/
144•vinhnx•11h ago•57 comments

Why getting your hands dirty is good for you

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260904-how-getting-your-hands-dirty-boosts-your-health-withi...
131•HatchedLake721•5h ago•107 comments

Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads

https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2026/09/leaving-vmware-just-got-harder-after-broadcom-pulled-...
242•josephcsible•18h ago•125 comments

Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU: desktop-class mobile gameplay with AI-native graphics

https://newsroom.arm.com/blog/arm-mali-g2-ultra-nx-ai-native-mobile-graphics
72•Re-Tails•10h ago•54 comments

Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)

https://lax-skyline.parcelscope.net/
322•rustywasm•20h ago•169 comments

PISA 2025 Students' reading and mathematics performance declined across the OECD

https://www.oecd.org/en/about/news/press-releases/2026/09/pisa-2025-students-reading-and-mathemat...
92•mazokum•3h ago•86 comments

Mistral raises €3B

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-makes-sovereign-open-weight-ai-to-frontier/
656•kuberwastaken•9h ago•478 comments

WeatherNext 3

https://deepmind.google/science/weathernext/
393•matthieu_bl•4d ago•97 comments

Jellyfin 12.0

https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-release-12.0/
521•0xC0ncord•12h ago•246 comments

Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-08-28-scientists-observe-einsteins-gravity-in-the-quantum-world
250•mudil•3d ago•88 comments

Robot writes in languages it has never seen before (2019)

https://www.wired.com/story/robot-writing/
18•euanming•2d ago•11 comments

Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework

https://github.com/TauricResearch/TradingAgents
99•fittingopposite•9h ago•69 comments
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LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai/
164•rpgbr•47m ago

Comments

piker•41m ago
It’s also been baked into Codex. Go figure
thenewnewguy•36m ago
It's open source software - it can be baked into pretty much anything given they follow the license terms.
user43928•14m ago
The question is whether the 10 million active users of Codex / ChatGPT Work count towards the download count.

That would contradict the cause implied in the title here.

jkahrs595•35m ago
Explains the download records as well
jdiff•33m ago
Not really. One entity embedding the software into another will only account for at most a handful of downloads.
nicce•31m ago
Unless Codex is vibe coded and it downloads it directly on every installation…
jdiff•7m ago
Didn't people find it bundled with a bunch of other things in a single runtime? Downloaded as part of a whole runtime would suggest it wasn't downloaded directly from the source.
empath75•20m ago
I think it's not baked into codex, but codex has either been instructed to download it when asked to edit word docs/excel spreadsheets, or it picked it up during training.
firefax•37m ago
I've been using Libreoffice to store my diary for years -- IIRC they use blowfish on the crypto side of things? I had a weird issue a while back where I'm not sure if I forgot my diary's password, or the file got corrupted.

I've had that happen a few times, each with a long space in between I keep things on paper.

It's a great project that doesn't get enough love.

dotancohen•3m ago
Why Libreoffice? Does your diary contain advanced formatting, tables, images, or other involved content? Or just for the encryption?

I ask because I also keep a diary and have refined how I store it and secure it, over 25+ years. Only recently did I find something that I like better than paper.

smokel•33m ago
The number of weekly downloads has simply been increasing over time, due to growing popularity. Calling each new high "record-breaking" is a bit meaningless.

Unix timestamp counter breaks record after writing this comment.

rf15•27m ago
Congratulation to your new unix timestamp record! (and yes, you too, nth reader!)
worldsavior•16m ago
First!
podgietaru•25m ago
What? A Unix timestamp literally cannot ever be lower. Its a completely assinine comparison isn't it?

This is comparative.

phoghed•7m ago
False, in January 2038 at least some systems will go back in time
bluGill•2m ago
I'm planning to make a killing when somebody unretires me to fix all the issues.. Or maybe not, I hope my retirement accounts are so large I can laugh at their "piddly $500/hr offer".
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ChrisArchitect•30m ago
Related:

Yes, no (built-in) AI is now a feature

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49553350

utopiah•23m ago
So related it's in the blog post.
tiahura•28m ago
Hopefully LibreOffice is one of the projects that gets free Pro Max accounts from A and O.

Corporations have been trying Star/Open/LibreOffice migrations for literally 30 years at this point. And, at the pace it’s been going, it will probably take another 30 for it to reach Word 95 polish.

stackghost•17m ago
Tell me you haven't used LibreOffice without telling me you haven't used LibreOffice.

It's actually a pretty great software suite.

dotinvictim•25m ago
enough with this anti ai noise resistance is futile it's getting popular due to improved ui
allears•21m ago
Nonsense. I can (and do) resist a lot of things. Society in general may well be screwed, but I'll at least hold onto a bit of self-respect.
rationalist•19m ago
I'm not anti-AI (I have a ChatGPT subscription), I just don't like bloat and nagging.
r053bud•18m ago
You’re wrong. Despite its usefulness in our profession, AI is deeply unpopular with the general public and products that don’t include it are rapidly gaining in popularity. People are tired of AI being shoved down their throats without consent.
monsieurgaufre•14m ago
Enough with this pro-ai noise.
jgbuddy•22m ago
Could also be due to the fact that every codex install includes a copy of libreoffice
ngruhn•14m ago
what? why?
reustle•10m ago
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/codex-libreoffice/

To better parse office file formats

dotancohen•6m ago
They have absolutely zero regard for system resources. I understand why, but such things were once considered unfeasible - and very recently were also considered undesirable.

I still use a laptop with a 100 GiB hard drive - only 80 of which are allocated to the /home/ directory. This would cut into the useable space significantly on that machine. How about Chromebooks?

paxys•8m ago
Bundling in codex isn’t going to increase the download count on their website. Unless you’re assuming that every codex install downloads a fresh non-cached copy.
phoghed•6m ago
GH copilot installed it for me when trying to read some docs lol
hn_submit•17m ago
Companies are totally blind to the fact that A.I. is a complete turn-off to many customers. Not having / using A.I. may even become a unique selling point in the future.
matthewmc3•9m ago
Conversely, a no-AI ethos is one that will very likely need to be walked back at some point in the future for tech products. AI isn't going anywhere, so finding ways to use it constructively with your product is going to be a far better long term strategy. For now while it's new and scary and there's a lack of regulation and governance and ethical considerations - I can see why an anti-AI stance is popular, but it's not durable long term.
angiolillo•4m ago
> finding ways to use it constructively with your product is going to be a far better long term strategy

It's worth pointing out that the original Document Foundation blog post (https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/03/yes-no-a...) seems to be doing exactly this:

> The criteria we have listed do not amount to a definitive rejection. The AI sector is evolving rapidly; on-premises inference is becoming manageable on standard hardware; and open models are improving much faster than most of us had anticipated. Should an approach emerge that meets all the conditions, we will evaluate it very carefully.

bayindirh•1m ago
I'm a big supporter of LibreOffice, Codeberg, SourceHut, etc. on what they do, tell and defend, and I'm with them.

On the other hand, I'm not anti-AI, but I don't want it to be showed down my throat in any and every app I have. I don't want that sparkly "Enhance this slide" button, "WhatsApp AI" in the corner, automatically generated "AI summary" in Google/YouTube, etc.

However, I'm fine with an unobtrusive "Summary" button in my search results (Kagi), or a tab which I can use with some models (Notion), use ML checkbox while resizing or "enhancing" images (Pixelmator Pro).

In short, I want consent, control and dignity in my workflows. Yes, I'm very against how these LLMs are trained, built and how the datacenters they run harm the environment we live in. However, I'm not against the tech. I want responsible development of it, for the customer instead of their owners which wants to milk their users like content and cash cows.

thataccount•15m ago
This is the way!
Joel_Mckay•15m ago
Are you sure it wasn't Microsoft doing a rug-pull October 13 on offline Office 2021 pro lifetime license installations for MacOS.

A lot of people are not happy about that stunt. =3

Zigurd•8m ago
Or people outside the US distrusting US technology? There is a confluence of trends pointing away from US based tech. It will take a crazy amount of work to restore trust.
rietta•12m ago
This is awesome! I have used LibreOffice (and Open Office) extensively for decades now. It is my real office suite I use for real work and real business accounting tasks. Yes, I am very well aware that Calc is different than Excel but it can get nearly all the same tasks done as long as you are not tied deep into a corporate environment passing Excel-specific files around. I have also made great business uses of it in Docker too, generating perfect PDFS from templates, and normalizing document formats for analysis. I donate a modest $19/month personally to the foundation, much rather pay them than Microsoft!
advenn•12m ago
Do nothing and win
jan_m_savage•7m ago
Regardless of the fact that the 'record download' levels is probably due to some other factor, the world is already becoming conscious that the so-called AI is not all it's cracked up to be.
airstrike•1m ago
[delayed]
mchusma•1m ago
Can you control it agentically? If so it’s has all the ai features I would want. I typically don’t care for built in ai features.
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robrain•4m ago
From Libre’s announcement (linked in the article):

“This is the highest number of downloads in the first week of any LibreOffice release!”

jrflo•1m ago
It's the tried and true headline method of "event 2 happened after event 1", implying a causal effect between the two, despite no evidence of such effect existing.